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SC1.1 Use definitions (1) (2)
Use definitions have a particular meaning for the purpose of the planning scheme. Any use not listed in Table SC1.1.2 column 1 is an undefined use.
Note—Development comprising a combination of defined uses is not considered to be an undefined use.
(3) A use listed in Table SC1.1.2 column 1 has the meaning set out beside that term in column 2. (4) The use definitions listed here are the definitions used in this planning scheme. (5) Column 3 of Table SC1.1.2 identifies examples of the types of activities that are consistent with the use identified in column 1. (6) Column 4 of Table SC1.1.2 identifies examples of activities that are not consistent with the use identified in column 1. (7) Columns 3 and 4 of Table SC1.1.2 are not exhaustive lists. (8) Uses listed in Table SC1.1.2 columns 3 and 4 that are not listed in column 1, do not form part of the definition. Table SC1.1.1—Index of use definitions x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
Adult store Agricultural supplies store Air services Animal husbandry Animal keeping Aquaculture Bar Brothel Bulk landscape supplies Caretaker’s accommodation Car wash Cemetery Child care centre Club Community care centre Community residence Community use Crematorium Cropping Detention facility Dual occupancy Dwelling house Dwelling unit Educational establishment Emergency services Environment facility Extractive industry Food and drink outlet Function facility Funeral parlour Garden centre
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x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
Hardware and trade supplies Health care services High impact industry Home based business Hospital Hotel Indoor sport and recreation Intensive animal industry Intensive horticulture Landing Low impact industry Major electricity infrastructure Major sport, recreation and entertainment facility Marine industry Market Medium impact industry Motor sport facility Multiple dwelling Nature-based tourism Nightclub entertainment facility Non-resident workforce accommodation Office Outdoor sales Outdoor sport and recreation Outstation Park Parking station
x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
Place of worship Port services Relocatable home park Renewable energy facility Research and technology industry Residential care facility Resort complex Retirement facility Roadside stall Rooming accommodation Rural industry Rural workers’ accommodation Sales office Service industry Service station Shop Shopping centre Short-term accommodation Showroom Special industry Substation Telecommunications facility Theatre Tourist attraction Tourist park Transport depot Utility installation Veterinary services
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Table SC1.1.2—Use definitions Column 1 Column 2 Use Definition
Adult store
Premises used as a shop where the primary purpose is for the display or sale of sexually explicit materials, products and devices associated with or used in a sexual practice or activity.
Agricultural supplies store
Premises used for the sale of agricultural products and supplies including agricultural chemicals and fertilisers, seeds, bulk veterinary supplies, farm clothing, saddlery, animal feed and irrigation materials.
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Warehouse Wholesale nursery Winery
Column 3 Examples include
Column 4 Does not include the following examples
Sex shop
Shop, newsagent, registered pharmacist or video hire, where the primary use of these are concerned with: x the sale, display or hire of printed or recorded matter (not of a sexually explicit nature) or x the sale or display of underwear or lingerie or x the sale or display of an article or thing primarily concerned with or used in association with a medically recognised purpose. Bulk landscape supplies, garden centre, outdoor sales wholesale nursery
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Air services
Premises used for any of the following: x the arrival and departure of aircraft x the housing, servicing, refuelling, maintenance and repair of aircraft x the assembly and dispersal of passengers or goods on or from an aircraft x any ancillary activities directly serving the needs of passengers and visitors to the use x associated training and education facilities x aviation facilities.
Airport, airstrip, helipad, public or private airfield
Animal husbandry
Premises used for production of animals or animal products on either native or improved pastures or vegetation.
Cattle studs, grazing of livestock, nonfeedlot dairying
Animal keeping, intensive animal industry, aquaculture, feedlots, piggeries
Aviaries, catteries, kennels, stables, wildlife refuge
Aquaculture, cattle studs, domestic pets, feedlots, grazing of livestock, non-feedlot dairying, piggeries, poultry meat and egg production, animal husbandry
Pond farms, tank systems, hatcheries, raceway system, rack and line systems, sea cages
Intensive animal Industry
The use includes ancillary yards, stables and temporary holding facilities and the repair and servicing of machinery. Animal keeping
Premises used for boarding, breeding or training of animals. The use may include ancillary temporary or permanent holding facilities on the same site and ancillary repair and servicing of machinery.
Aquaculture
Premises used for the cultivation of aquatic animals or plants in a confined area that may require the provision of food either mechanically or by hand.
Bar
Premises used primarily to sell liquor for consumption on the premises and that provides for a maximum capacity to seat sixty persons at any one time.
Club, hotel, nightclub entertainment facility, tavern
The use may include ancillary sale of food for consumption on the premises and entertainment activities.
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Brothel
Premises made available for prostitution by two or more prostitutes at the premises.
Adult store, club, nightclub entertainment facility, shop
Bulk landscape supplies
Premises used for bulk storage and sale of landscaping and gardening supplies, which may include soil, gravel, potting mix and mulch, where the majority of materials sold from the premises are not in prepackaged form.
Garden centre, outdoor sales, wholesale nursery
Caretaker’s accommodation
A dwelling provided for a caretaker of a non-residential use on the same premises.
Dwelling house
Car wash
Premises primarily used for commercially cleaning motor vehicles by an automatic or partly automatic process.
Service station
Cemetery
Premises used for interment of bodies or ashes after death.
Burial ground, crypt, columbarium, lawn cemetery, pet cemetery, mausoleum
Crematorium, funeral parlour
Child care centre
Premises used for minding, education and care, but not residence, of children.
Crèche, early childhood centre, kindergarten, outside hours school care
Educational establishment, home based child care, family day care
Club
Premises used by persons associated for social, literary, political, sporting, athletic or other similar purposes for social interaction or entertainment.
Club house, guide and scout clubs, surf lifesaving club, RSL, bowls club
Hotel, nightclub entertainment facility, place of worship, theatre
Disability support services, drop in centre, respite centre, integrated Indigenous support centre
Child care centre, family day care, home based child care, health care services, residential care facility
The use may include the ancillary preparation and service of food and drink. Community care centre
Premises used to provide social support where no accommodation is provided. Medical care may be provided but is ancillary to the primary use.
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Community residence
Any dwelling used for accommodation for a maximum of six persons who require assistance or support with daily living needs, share communal spaces and who may be unrelated.
Hospice
Dwelling house, dwelling unit, residential care facility, rooming accommodation, short-term accommodation
Art gallery, community centre, community hall, library, museum
Cinema, club, hotel, nightclub entertainment facility, place of worship
The use may include a resident support worker engaged or employed in the management of the residence. Community use
Premises used for providing artistic, social or cultural facilities and community support services to the public and may include the ancillary preparation and provision of food and drink.
Crematorium
Premises used for the cremation or aquamation of bodies.
Cropping
Premises used for growing plants or plant material for commercial purposes where dependent on the cultivation of soil. The use includes harvesting and the storage and packing of produce and plants grown on the site and the ancillary repair and servicing of machinery used on the site.
Cemetery
Fruit, nut, vegetable and grain production, forestry for wood production, fodder and pasture production, plant fibre production, sugar cane growing, vineyard
Detention facility
Premises used for the confinement of persons committed by a process of law.
Prison, detention centre
Dual occupancy
Premises containing two dwellings on one lot (whether or not attached) for separate households.
Duplex
Dwelling house
A residential use of premises for one household that contains a single dwelling. The use includes domestic outbuildings and works normally associated with a dwelling and may include a secondary dwelling.
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Permanent plantations, intensive horticulture, rural industry
Dwelling house, multiple dwelling
Caretaker’s accommodation, dual occupancy, rooming accommodation, short-term accommodation, student accommodation, multiple dwelling
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Dwelling unit
A single dwelling within a premises containing non residential use(s).
‘Shop-top’ apartment
Caretaker’s accommodation, dwelling house
Educational establishment
Premises used for training and instruction designed to impart knowledge and develop skills.
Pre-preparatory, preparatory and primary school, secondary school, special education, college, university, technical institute, outdoor education centres
Child care centre, home based child care, family day care
Community use, hospital, residential care facility
The use may include outside hours school care for students or on-site student accommodation.
Emergency services
Premises used by government bodies or community organisations to provide essential emergency services or disaster management services including management support facilities for the protection of persons, property and the environment.
State emergency service facility, ambulance station, rural fire brigade, auxiliary fire and rescue station, urban fire and rescue station, police station, emergency management support facility, evacuation centres
Environment facility
Facilities used for the conservation, interpretation and appreciation of areas of environmental, cultural or heritage value.
Nature-based attractions, walking tracks, seating, shelters, boardwalks, observation decks, bird hides
Extractive industry
Premises used for the extraction and/or processing of extractive resources and associated activities, including their transportation to market.
Quarry
Food and drink outlet
Premises used for preparation and sale of food and drink to the public for consumption on or off the site. The use may include the ancillary sale of liquor for consumption on site.
Bistro, café, coffee shop, drive-through facility, kiosk, milk bar, restaurant, snack bar, takeaway, tea room
Bar, club, hotel, shop, theatre, nightclub entertainment facility
Function facility
Premises used for conducting receptions or functions that may include the preparation and provision of food and liquor for consumption on site.
Conference centre, reception centre
Community use, hotel
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Funeral parlour
Premises used to arrange and conduct funerals, memorial services and the like, but do not include burial or cremation.
Column 4 Does not include the following examples Cemetery, crematorium, place of worship
The use includes a mortuary and the storage and preparation of bodies for burial or cremation. Garden centre
Premises used primarily for the sale of plants and may include sale of gardening and landscape products and supplies where these are sold mainly in pre-packaged form.
Retail plant nursery
Bulk landscape supplies, wholesale nursery, outdoor sales
The use may include an ancillary food and drink outlet. Hardware and trade supplies
Premises used for the sale, display or hire of hardware and trade supplies including household fixtures, timber, tools, paint, wallpaper, plumbing supplies and the like.
Health care services
Premises for medical, paramedical, alternative therapies and general health care and treatment of persons that involves no overnight accommodation.
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Shop, showroom, outdoor sales and warehouse
Dental clinics, medical centres, natural medicine practices, nursing services, physiotherapy clinic
Community care centre, hospital
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High impact industry
Premises used for industrial activities that include the manufacturing, producing, processing, repairing, altering, recycling, storing, distributing, transferring or treating of products and have one or more of the following attributes: x potential for significant impacts on sensitive land uses due to offsite emissions including aerosol, fume, particle, smoke, odour and noise x potential for significant offsite impacts in the event of fire, explosion or toxic release x generates high traffic flows in the context of the locality or the road network x generates a significant demand on the local infrastructure network x the use may involve night time and outdoor activities x onsite controls are required for emissions and dangerous goods risks.
Abattoirs, concrete batching plant, boiler making and engineering and metal foundry
Tanneries, rendering plants, oil refineries, waste incineration, manufacturing or storing explosives, power plants, manufacturing fertilisers, service industry, low impact industry, medium impact industry, special industry
Home based business
A dwelling used for a business activity where subordinate to the residential use.
Hospital
Premises used for medical or surgical care or treatment of patients whether or not involving overnight accommodation. The use may include ancillary accommodation for employees and ancillary activities directly serving the needs of patients and visitors.
Hotel
Premises used primarily to sell liquor for consumption.
Note—additional examples may be shown in SC1.1.2 industry thresholds.
Bed and breakfast, home office, home based child care
Hobby, office, shop, warehouse, transport depot Health care services, residential care facility
Pub, tavern
Nightclub entertainment facility
The use may include shortterm accommodation, dining and entertainment activities and facilities.
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Indoor sport and recreation
Premises used for leisure, sport or recreation conducted wholly or mainly indoors.
Amusement parlour, bowling alley, gymnasium, squash courts, enclosed tennis courts
Cinema, hotel, nightclub entertainment facility, theatre
Intensive animal industry
Premises used for the intensive production of animals or animal products in an enclosure that requires the provision of food and water either mechanically or by hand.
Feedlots, piggeries, poultry and egg production
Animal husbandry, aquaculture, drought feeding, milking sheds, shearing sheds, weaning pens
Greenhouse and shade house plant production, hydroponic farms, mushroom farms
Wholesale nursery
Boat ramp, jetty, pontoon
Marina
The use includes the ancillary storage and packing of feed and produce. Intensive horticulture
Premises used for the intensive production of plants or plant material on imported media and located within a building or structure or where outdoors, artificial lights or containers are used. The use includes the storage and packing of produce and plants grown on the subject site.
Landing
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A structure for mooring, launching, storage and retrieval of vessels where passengers embark and disembark.
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Low impact industry
Premises used for industrial activities that include the manufacturing, producing, processing, repairing, altering, recycling, storing, distributing, transferring or treating of products and have one or more of the following attributes: x negligible impacts on sensitive land uses due to offsite emissions including aerosol, fume, particle, smoke, odour and noise x minimal traffic generation and heavy-vehicle usage x demands imposed upon the local infrastructure network consistent with surrounding uses x the use generally operates during the day (e.g. 7am to 6pm) x offsite impacts from storage of dangerous goods are negligible x the use is primarily undertaken indoors.
Repairing motor vehicles, fitting and turning workshop
Panel beating, spray painting or surface coating, tyre recycling, drum re conditioning, wooden and laminated product manufacturing, service industry, medium impact industry, high impact industry, special industry
All aspects of development for either the transmission grid or electricity supply networks as defined under the Electricity Act 1994.
Powerlines greater than 66kV
Minor electricity infrastructure, substation
Major electricity infrastructure
Note—additional examples may be shown in SC1.1.2 industry thresholds.
The use may include ancillary telecommunication facilities. Major sport, recreation and entertainment facility
Premises with large scale built facilities designed to cater for large scale events including major sporting, recreation, conference and entertainment events.
Convention and exhibition centres, entertainment centres, sports stadiums, horse racing
Indoor sport and recreation, local sporting field, motor sport, park, outdoor sport and recreation
Marine industry
Premises used for waterfront based marine industries involved in any activity relating to the manufacturing, storage, repair or servicing of vessels and maritime infrastructure.
Boat building, boat storage, dry dock
Marina
The use may include the provision of fuel and disposal of waste.
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Market
Premises used for the sale of goods to the public on a regular basis, where goods are primarily sold from temporary structures such as stalls, booths or trestle tables.
Flea market, farmers market, car boot sales
Shop, roadside stall
Premises used for industrial activities that include the manufacturing, producing, processing, repairing, altering, recycling, storing, distributing, transferring or treating of products and have one or more of the following attributes: x potential for noticeable impacts on sensitive land uses due to offsite emissions including aerosol, fume, particle, smoke, odour and noise x potential for noticeable offsite impacts in the event of fire, explosion or toxic release x generates high traffic flows in the context of the locality or the road network x generates an elevated demand on the local infrastructure network x onsite controls are required for emissions and dangerous goods risks x the use is primarily undertaken indoors x evening or night activities are undertaken indoors and not outdoors.
Spray painting and surface coating, wooden and laminated product manufacturing (including cabinet making, joining, timber truss making or wood working)
Concrete batching, tyre manufacturing and retreading, metal recovery (involving a fragmentiser), textile manufacture, chemically treating timber and plastic product manufacture, service industry, low impact industry, high impact industry, special industry
Premises used for organised or recreational motor sports whether on or off-road, which may include permanent, temporary or informal provision for spectators and other supporting uses.
Go-karting, lawn mower race tracks, trail bike parks, 4WD and all terrain parks, motocross tracks, off road motorcycle facility, motorcycle or car race tracks
The use may include entertainment provided for the enjoyment of customers. Medium impact industry
Motor sport facility
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Major sport, recreation and entertainment facility, outdoor sport and recreation
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Multiple dwelling
Premises containing three or more dwellings for separate households.
Apartments, flats, units, townhouses, row housing, triplex
Rooming accommodation, dual occupancy, duplex, granny flat, residential care facility, retirement facility
Nature-based tourism
The use of land or premises for a tourism activity, including tourist and visitor short-term accommodation, that is intended for the conservation, interpretation and appreciation of areas of environmental, cultural or heritage value, local ecosystem and attributes of the natural environment. Nature-based tourism activities typically: x maintain a nature based focus or product x promote environmental awareness, education and conservation x carry out sustainable practices.
Environmentally responsible accommodation facilities including lodges, cabins, huts and tented camps
Environment facility
Nightclub entertainment facility
Premises used to provide entertainment, which may include cabaret, dancing and music.
Club, hotel, tavern, pub, indoor sport and recreation, theatre, concert hall
The use generally includes the sale of liquor and food for consumption on site. Non-resident workforce accommodation
Premises used to provide accommodation for nonresident workers. The use may include provision of recreational and entertainment facilities for the exclusive use of residents and their visitors.
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Contractor’s camp, construction camp, single person’s quarters, temporary workers’ accommodation
Relocatable home park, short-term accommodation, tourist park
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Office
Premises used for an administrative, secretarial or management service or the practice of a profession, whereon goods or materials are made, sold or hired and where the principal activity provides for one or more of the following: x business or professional advice x service of goods that are not physically on the premises x office based administrative functions of an organisation.
Bank, real estate agent, administration building
Home based business, home office, shop, outdoor sales
Outdoor sales
Premises used for the display, sale, hire or lease of products where the use is conducted wholly or predominantly outdoors and may include construction, industrial or farm plant and equipment, vehicles, boats and caravans. The use may include ancillary repair or servicing activities and sale or fitting of accessories.
Agricultural machinery sales yard, motor vehicles sales yard
Bulk landscape supplies, market
Outdoor sport and recreation
Premises used for a recreation or sport activity that is carried on outside a building and requires areas of open space and may include ancillary works necessary for safety and sustainability.
Driving range, golf course, swimming pool, tennis courts, football ground, cricket oval
Major sport, recreation and entertainment facility, motor sport, park, community use
The use may include ancillary food and drink outlet(s) and the provision of ancillary facilities or amenities conducted indoors such as changing rooms and storage facilities.
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Outstation
Premises used for cultural and/or recreational activities undertaken by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Indigenous camp site
Dwelling house, hostel, multiple dwelling, relocatable home park, short term accommodation, tourist park
Urban common
Tourist attraction, outdoor sport and recreation
The use provides for intermittent short stay and/or long term camping. The use may involve permanent low scale built infrastructure. Park
Premises accessible to the public generally for free sport, recreation and leisure, and may be used for community events or other community activities. Facilities may include children’s playground equipment, informal sports fields and ancillary vehicle parking and other public conveniences.
Parking station
Premises used for parking vehicles where the parking is not ancillary to another use.
Car park, ‘park and ride’, bicycle parking
Permanent plantation
Premises used for growing plants not intended to be harvested.
Permanent plantations for carbon sequestration, biodiversity or natural resource management
Forestry for wood production, biofuel production
Place of worship
Premises used by an organised group for worship and religious activities.
Church, chapel, mosque, synagogue, temple
Community use, child care centre, funeral parlour, crematorium
The use may include ancillary facilities for social, educational and associated charitable.
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Port services
Premises used for the following: x the arrival and departure of vessels x the movement of passengers or goods on or off vessels x any ancillary activities directly serving the needs of passengers and visitors or the housing, servicing, maintenance and repair of vessels.
Marina, ferry terminal
Landing
Relocatable home park
Premises used for relocatable dwellings (whether they are permanently located or not) that provides long-term residential accommodation.
Tourist park
The use may include a manager’s residence and office, ancillary food and drink outlet, kiosk, amenity buildings and the provision of recreation facilities for the exclusive use of residents. Renewable energy facility
Premises used for the generation of electricity or energy from renewable (naturally reoccurring) sources.
Solar farm, wind farm, tidal power
Research and technology industry
Premises used for innovative and emerging technological industries involved in research design, manufacture, assembly, testing, maintenance and storage of machinery, equipment and components.
Aeronautical engineering, computer component manufacturing, medical laboratories, computer server facility
Wind turbine or solar panels supplying energy to domestic or rural activities on the same site
The use may include emerging industries such as energy, aerospace, and biotechnology. Residential care facility
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A residential use of premises for supervised accommodation where the use includes medical and other support facilities for residents who cannot live independently and require regular nursing or personal care.
Convalescent home, nursing home
Community residence, dwelling house, dual occupancy, hospital, multiple dwelling, retirement facility
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Resort complex
Premises used for tourist and visitor short-term accommodation that include integrated leisure facilities including: x restaurants and bars x meeting and function facilities x sporting and fitness facilities x staff accommodation x transport facilities directly associated with the tourist facility such as a ferry terminal and air services.
Island resort
Retirement facility
A residential use of premises for an integrated community and specifically built and designed for older people.
Retirement village
Residential care facility
Produce stall
Market
The use includes independent living units and may include serviced units where residents require some support with health care and daily living needs. The use may also include a manager’s residence and office, food and drink outlet, amenity buildings, communal facilities and accommodation for staff. Roadside stall
Premises used for the roadside display and sale of goods in rural areas.
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Rooming accommodation
Premises used for the accommodation of one or more households where each resident: x has a right to occupy one or more rooms x does not have a right to occupy the whole of the premises in which the rooms are situated x may be provided with separate facilities for private use x may share communal facilities or communal space with one or more of the other residents.
Boarding house, hostel, monastery, offsite student accommodation
Hospice, community residence, dwelling house, short-term accommodation, multiple dwelling
Packing shed
Intensive animal husbandry, intensive horticulture, roadside stall, wholesale nursery, winery, abattoir, agricultural supply store
Farm workers’ accommodation
Short-term accommodation, caretaker’s accommodation, dual occupancy, dwelling house, nature or rural based tourist accommodation, non-resident workforce accommodation, multiple dwellings
The use may include: x rooms not in the same building on site x provision of a food or other service x on site management or staff and associated accommodation. Facilities includes furniture and equipment as defined in the Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008 Rural industry
Premises used for storage, processing and packaging of products from a rural use. The use includes processing, packaging and sale of products produced as a result of a rural use where these activities are ancillary to a rural use on or adjacent to the site.
Rural workers’ accommodation
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Any premises used as quarters for staff employed in the use of land for rural purposes, such as agriculture, intensive animal husbandry and forestry, conducted on a lot in the same ownership whether or not such quarters are self-contained.
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Sales office
The temporary use of premises for displaying a land parcel or buildings that can be built for sale or can be won as a prize.
Display dwelling
Bank, office
Audio visual equipment repair, film processing, bicycle repairs, clock and watch repairs, computer repairs, dry cleaning, hand engraving, jewellery making, laundromat, locksmith, picture framing, shoe repairs, tailor
Small engine mechanical repair workshop, cabinet making, shop fitting, sign writing, tyre depot, low impact industry, medium impact, high impact industry, special industry
The use may include a caravan or relocatable dwelling or structure. Service industry
Premises used for industrial activities that have no external air, noise or odour emissions from the site and can be suitably located with other nonindustrial uses.
Service station
Premises used for the sale of fuel including petrol, liquid petroleum gas, automotive distillate and alternative fuels.
Car wash
The use may include, where ancillary, a shop, food and drink outlet, maintenance, repair servicing and washing of vehicles, the hire of trailers, and supply of compressed air. Shop
Premises used for the display, sale or hire of goods or the provision of personal services or betting to the public.
Shopping centre
Premises comprising two or more individual tenancies that is comprised primarily of shops, and that function as an integrated complex.
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Hairdresser, liquor store, department store, discount department store, discount variety stores, betting agencies, supermarket, corner store
Adult store, food and drink outlet, showroom, market
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Short-term accommodation
Premises used to provide short-term accommodation for tourists or travellers for a temporary period of time (typically not exceeding three consecutive months) and may be self-contained.
Motel, backpackers, cabins, serviced apartments, accommodation hotel, farm stay
Hostel, rooming accommodation, tourist park
Bulky goods sales, motor vehicles sales showroom, bulk stationary supplies
Food and drink outlet, shop, outdoor sales
The use may include a manager’s residence and office and the provision of recreation facilities for the exclusive use of visitors. Showroom
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Premises used primarily for the sale of goods of a related product line that are of a size, shape or weight that requires: x a large area for handling, display or storage x direct vehicle access to the building by members of the public for loading and unloading items purchased or hired.
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Special industry
Premises used for industrial activities that include the manufacturing, producing, processing, repairing, altering, recycling, storing, distributing, transferring or treating of products and have one or more of the following attributes: x potential for extreme impacts on sensitive land uses due to offsite emissions including aerosol, fume, particle, smoke, odour and noise x potential for extreme offsite impacts in the event of fire, explosion or toxic release x onsite controls are required for emissions and dangerous goods risks x the use generally involves night time and outdoor activities x the use may involve the storage and handling of large volumes of dangerous goods x requires significant separation from nonindustrial uses.
Tanneries, rendering plants, oil refineries, waste incineration, manufacturing or storing explosives, power plants, manufacturing fertilisers
Low impact industry, medium impact industry, high impact industry, service industry
Premises forming part of a transmission grid or supply network under the Electricity Act 1994, and used for: x converting or transforming electrical energy from one voltage to another x regulating voltage in an electrical circuit x controlling electrical circuits x switching electrical current between circuits x a switchyard or x communication facilities for ‘operating works’ as defined under the Electricity Act 1994or for workforce operational and safety communications.
Substations, switching yards
Substation
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Major electricity infrastructure, minor electricity infrastructure
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Telecommunications facility
Premises used for systems that carry communications and signals by means of radio, including guided or unguided electromagnetic energy, whether such facility is manned or remotely controlled.
Telecommunication tower, broadcasting station, television station
Aviation facility, ‘low impact telecommunications facility’ as defined under the Telecommunications Act 1997
Theatre
Premises used for presenting movies, live entertainment or music to the public and may include provision of food and liquor for consumption on the premises.
Cinema, movie house, concert hall, dance hall, film studio, music recording studio
Community hall, hotel, indoor sport and recreation facility, temporary film studio
The use may include the production of film or music, including associated ancillary facilities, which are associated with the production, such as sound stages, wardrobe and laundry facilities, makeup facilities, set construction workshops, editing and postproduction facilities. Tourist attraction
Premises used for providing onsite entertainment, recreation or similar facilities for the general public. The use may include provision of food and drink for consumption on site.
Theme park, zoo
Hotel, major sport, recreation and entertainment facility, nightclub entertainment facility
Tourist park
Premises used to provide for accommodation in caravans, self-contained cabins, tents and similar structures for the public for short term holiday purposes.
Camping ground, caravan park, holiday cabins
Relocatable home park, tourist attraction, shortterm accommodation, non-resident workforce accommodation
The use may include, where ancillary, a manager’s residence and office, kiosk, amenity buildings, food and drink outlet, or the provision of recreation facilities for the use of occupants of the tourist park and their visitors, and accommodation for staff.
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Column 3 Examples include
Column 4 Does not include the following examples
Transport depot
Premises used for the storage, for commercial or public purposes, of more than one motor vehicle. The use includes premises for the storage of taxis, buses, trucks, heavy machinery and uses of a like nature. The term may include the ancillary servicing, repair and cleaning of vehicles stored on the premises.
Contractor’s depot, bus depot, truck yard, heavy machinery yard
Home based business, warehouse, low impact industry, service industry
Utility installation
Premises used to provide the public with the following services: x supply or treatment of water, hydraulic power or gas x sewerage, drainage or stormwater services x transport services including road, rail or water x waste management facilities or x network infrastructure.
Sewerage treatment plant, mail depot, pumping station, water treatment plant
Telecommunications tower, major electricity infrastructure, minor electricity infrastructure, substation, renewable energy facility, transport depot
The use includes maintenance and storage depots and other facilities for the operation of the use. Veterinary services
Premises used for veterinary care, surgery and treatment of animals that may include provision for the short-term accommodation of the animals on the premises.
Warehouse
Premises used for the storage and distribution of goods, whether or not in a building, including self-storage facilities or storage yards.
Animal keeping
Self storage sheds
Hardware and trade supplies, outdoor sales, showroom, shop
The use may include sale of goods by wholesale where ancillary to storage. The use does not include retail sales from the premises or industrial uses.
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Column 3 Examples include
Wholesale nursery
Premises used for the sale of plants, but not to the general public, where the plants are grown on or adjacent to the site.
Column 4 Does not include the following examples Bulk landscape supplies, garden centre
The use may include sale of gardening materials where these are ancillary to the primary use. Winery
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Premises used for manufacturing of wine, which may include the sale of wine manufactured on site.
Rural industry
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Defined activity groups
Defined uses listed in Table SC1.1.2 are able to be clustered into activity groups. An activity group listed in column 1 clusters the defined uses listed in column 2. An activity group is able to be referenced in Part 5. The activity groups listed here are the defined activity groups for the purpose of the planning scheme.
Table SC1.1.1.1—Index of defined activity groups Accommodation activities Energy and infrastructure Commercial activities activities Community activities Industrial activities
Rural activities Sport and recreation activities
Table SC1.1.1.2—Defined activity groups Column 1 Column 2 Activity group Uses Caretaker’s accommodation, Community residence, Dual Accommodation occupancy, Dwelling house, Dwelling unit, Home based activities business, Hostel, Multiple dwelling, Residential care facility, Retirement facility, Short-term accommodation, Tourist park, Rural worker’s accommodation. Adult store, Agricultural supplies store, Car wash, Caretaker’s Commercial activities accommodation, Food and drink outlet, Funeral parlour, Garden centre, Hardware and trade supplies, Hostel, Office, Outdoor sales, Parking station, Sales office, Shop, Shopping centre, Showroom, Theatre, Tourist attraction, Veterinary services. Child care centre, Club, Community care centre, Community Community activities residence, Community use, Educational establishment, Emergency services, Health care services, Hospital, Place of worship, Outdoor sport and recreation. Substation, Telecommunications facility. Energy and infrastructure activities Bulk landscape supplies, Extractive industry, High impact Industrial activities industry, Low impact industry, Medium impact industry, Research and technology industry, Service industry, Special industry, Transport depot, Warehouse. Animal husbandry, Animal keeping, Aquaculture, Cropping, Rural activities Intensive animal industries, Intensive horticulture, Permanent plantations, Roadside stall, Rural industry, Wholesale nursery, Winery Indoor sport and recreation, Outdoor sport and recreation Sport and recreation activities
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The industry thresholds listed below are to be used in conjunction with the defined uses listed in Table SC1.1.2—low impact industry, medium impact industry, high impact industry and special industry.
Table SC1.1.2.1—Industry thresholds Column 1 Column 2 Use Additional examples include Low impact (1) Repairing and servicing motor vehicles, including mechanical industry components, radiators, electrical components, wheel alignments, exhausts, tyres, suspension or air conditioning, not including spray painting (2) Repairing and servicing lawn mowers and outboard engines (3) Fitting and turning workshop (4) Assembling or fabricating products from sheet metal or welding steel, producing less than 10 tonnes a year and not including spray painting (5) Assembling wood products not involving cutting, routing, sanding or spray painting (6) Dismantling automotive or mechanical equipment, not including debonding brake or clutch components. Medium (1) Metal foundry producing less than 10 tonnes of metal castings per impact annum industry (2) Boiler making or engineering works producing less than 10 000 tonnes of metal product per annum (3) Facility, goods yard or warehouse for the storage and distribution of dangerous goods not involving manufacturing processes and not a major hazard facility under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (4) Abrasive blasting facility using less than 10 tonnes of abrasive material per annum (5) Enamelling workshop using less than 15 000 litres of enamel per annum (6) Galvanising works using less than 100 tonnes of zinc per annum (7) Anodising or electroplating workshop where tank area is less than 400 square metres (8) Powder coating workshop using less than 500 tonnes of coating per annum (9) Spray painting workshop (including spray painting vehicles, plant, equipment or boats) using less than 20 000 litres of paint per annum (10) Scrap metal yard (not including a fragmentiser), dismantling automotive or mechanical equipment including debonding brake or clutch components (11) Manufacturing clay or ceramic products including bricks, tiles, pipes and pottery goods, less than 200 tonnes per annum (12) Processing, smoking, drying, curing, milling, bottling or canning food, beverages or pet food, less than 200 tonnes per annum (13) Vegetable oil or oilseed processing in works with a design production capacity of less than 1000 tonnes per annum (14) Manufacturing wooden products including cabinet making, joinery, wood working, producing less than 500 tonnes per annum (15) Manufacturing medium density fibreboard, chipboard, particle board, plywood, laminated board or wood veneer products, less than 250 tonnes per annum (16) Sawmilling, wood chipping and kiln drying timber and logs,
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Column 2 Additional examples include producing less than 500 tonnes per annum (17) Recycling and reprocessing batteries (18) Repairing or maintaining boats (19) Manufacturing substrate for mushroom growing (20) Manufacturing or processing plaster, producing less than 5000 tonnes per annum (21) Recycling or reprocessing tyres including retreading (22) Printing advertising material, magazines, newspapers, packaging and stationery (23) Transport depot, distribution centre, contractors depot and storage yard (24) Manufacturing fibreglass, foam plastic, composite plastic or rigid fibre-reinforced plastic or plastic products, less than 5 tonnes per annum (except fibreglass boats, tanks and swimming pools) (25) Manufacturing PET, PETE, polypropylene and polystyrene plastic or plastic products, less than 10 000 tonnes per annum (26) Reconditioning metal or plastic drums (27) Glass fibre manufacture less than 200 tonnes per annum (28) Manufacturing glass or glass products, where not glass fibre, less than 250 tonnes per annum. (1) Metal foundry producing 10 tonnes or greater of metal castings per annum (2) Boiler making or engineering works producing 10 000 tonnes or greater of metal product per annum (3) Major hazard facility for the storage and distribution of dangerous goods not involving manufacturing processes (4) Scrap metal yard including a fragmentiser (5) Manufacturing clay or ceramic products including bricks, tiles, pipes and pottery goods, greater than 200 tonnes per annum (6) Processing, smoking, drying, curing, milling, bottling or canning food, beverages or pet food, greater than 200 tonnes per annum (7) Vegetable oil or oilseed processing in works with a design production capacity of greater than 1000 tonnes per annum (8) Manufacturing wooden products including cabinet making, joinery, wood working, producing greater than 500 tonnes per annum (9) Manufacturing medium density fibreboard, chipboard, particle board, plywood, laminated board or wood veneer products, 250 tonnes or greater per annum (10) Sawmilling, wood chipping and kiln drying timber and logs, producing greater than 500 tonnes per annum (11) Manufacturing or processing plaster, producing greater than 5000 tonnes per annum (12) Enamelling workshop using 15 000 litres or greater of enamel per annum (13) Galvanising works using 100 tonnes or greater of zinc per annum (14) Anodising or electroplating workshop where tank area is 400 square metres or greater (15) Powder coating workshop using 500 tonnes or greater of coating per annum (16) Spray painting workshop (including spray painting vehicles, plant, equipment or boats) using 20 000 litres or greater of paint per
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DEFINITIONS SC1.2 Administrative definitions (1) (2) (3)
Administrative definitions assist with the interpretation of the planning scheme but do not have a meaning in relation to a use. A term listed in Table SC1.2.2 column 1 has the meaning set out beside that term in column 2 under the heading. The administrative definitions listed here are the definitions for the purpose of the planning scheme.
Table SC1.2.1—Index of administrative definitions
x x x x x
x x x
x x x
x x x x x x x
x x x x x x
x x x x
x
x x x x x x x x x
Abattoir Access Access strip Accessway Accommodation unit Active and public transport supportive use Active transport Adjoining premises Adverse flooding Advertising device Affordable housing Alternative provision Annual exceedance probability (AEP) Articulation Assessment criteria Australian height datum (AHD) Average recurrence interval (ARI) Average width Aviation facilities Background noise level Base date Basement Biodiversity Boundary clearance Buffer Building Building format plan of survey Building frontage Building height Building height for aviation purposes Burra Charter Bushfire risk Commercial waste Community management statement Community titles scheme Connectivity Corner lot Crime prevention through environmental design
x Development envelope area x Development footprint x Domestic addition x Domestic outbuilding x Domestic pet x Domestic waste x Dwelling x Gross floor area x Ground level x Habitable room x Habitat x Habitat link x Habitat values x Hazardous material x Heritage place x High bank x Highest astronomical tide x Household x Infill development x Irregular lot x Landscaped area x Landscape strip x Landscaping / Landscaped or Landscape x Legibility x Lot x Mass x Mean high water spring tide x Mezzanine x Minor building work
x Minor building alterations and additions x Minor electricity infrastructure x Movement network x Net developable area x Netserv plan x Non-resident workers x Outermost projection x Out-of-centre x Outdoor lighting x Overland flow path
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x Service catchment
x Setback x Side and rear boundary clearance x Site x Site cover x Standard format plan of survey x State-controlled road x Storey x Stormwater x Streetscape x Structure x Temporary use x Transit oriented development x Transport network x Ultimate development x Urban purposes x Use x Vegetation x Vegetated buffer area x Vegetation management offset x Verge
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x x x x
(CPTED) Dedicated road Defined flood level Demand unit Demolition work Design speed Design vehicle Development
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Permeability Permeable surface Pick up / set down area Place Planning assumptions Plot ratio Precinct Premises Preservation Primary street frontage
x Volumetric format plan of survey
x Walkability x Walking catchment / walkable catchment x Water catchment x Waterway x Wetland
Table SC1.2.2—Administrative definitions Column 1 Column 2 Term Definition Abattoir
Livestock processing industries comprising commercial operations that: (1) slaughter animals (including poultry) with an intended processing capacity of more than 3,000 kilograms live weight per day; or (2) manufacture products derived from the slaughter of animals including: (a) rendering or fat extraction plants with an intended production capacity of more than 200 tonnes per year of tallow, fat or their derivatives or proteinaceous matter; or (b) plants with an intended production capacity of more than 5,000 tonnes per year of products including hides, adhesives, pet food, gelatine, fertiliser or meat products. Activities that occur in abattoirs may include: x receiving and holding of livestock; or x slaughter and carcass dressing of animals; or x chilling of carcass product; or x carcass boning and packaging; or x freezing of finished carcass and cartoned product; or x rendering processes; or x drying of skins; or x treatment of wastewater; or x transport of processed material.
Access
The entry of persons and vehicles onto a lot, either existing or proposed, from a road which abuts the frontage of that lot.
Access strip
That part of a site which is used for providing access to a road.
Accessway
A vehicle driveway used to access premises.
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Accommodation unit
Means a separate area of private accommodation, either permanent or temporary contained within Non-resident workforce accommodation, Short-term accommodation, Residential care facility, Resort complex, Retirement facility, Rural workers’ accommodation or Tourist park that provides common area(s) but where not a dwelling. Note- a Non-resident workforce accommodation dwelling may contain one or more accommodation units.
Active and public transport supportive use
A use that, by its nature, encourages travel by active and public transport over private motor vehicles, or; attracts users that commonly travel by active or public transport.
Active transport
Non-motorised travel such as walking and cycling.
Adjoining premises
Premises that share all or part of a common boundary. A common boundary may be a single point such as a corner point.
Adverse flooding
Flooding which may adversely affect the amenity, safety or use of a premises.
Advertising device
Any permanent structure, device, sign or the like intended for advertising purposes. It includes any framework, supporting structure or building feature that is provided exclusively or mainly as part of the advertisement
Affordable housing
Housing that is appropriate to the needs of households with low to moderate incomes.
Alternative provision
For the purpose of building works, provisions that are:
Annual exceedance probability (AEP)
x
identified or stated in a planning scheme; and
x
alternative to the provisions of the Queensland Development Code, MP 1.1 and 1.2; and
x
qualitative statements or quantifiable standards.
The likelihood of occurrence of a flood of a given size or larger in any one year, usually expressed as a percentage. For example, if a peak flood discharge of 500 cubic metres per second has an AEP of five percent, it means that there is a five percent risk, that is the probability of 0.05 or a likelihood of one in twenty, of a peak flood discharge of 500 cubic metres/second or larger occurring in any one year. The AEP of a flood event gives no indication of when a flood of that size will occur next. Note—definition from State Planning Policy (July 2014)
Articulation
Designing a building, or the façade of a building, with clearly distinguishable parts.
Assessment criteria
Those parts of the assessment provisions, comprising codes or otherwise, that establish the outcomes sought for selfassessable, assessable development and development requiring compliance assessment, including overall outcomes, performance outcomes and acceptable outcomes.
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Australian height datum (AHD)
The survey height datum adopted by the National Mapping Council as the datum to which all vertical control for mapping is to be referred. 0.0 metres AHD approximates mean sea level.
Average recurrence interval (ARI)
The average, or expected, value of the periods between exceedances of a given rainfall total accumulated over a given duration. It is implicit in this definition that the periods between exceedances are generally random. Note—for example, a 100 year ARI indicates an average of 100 years between exceedance of a given storm magnitude.
Average width
In regard to a lot, the distance between the midpoints of the side boundaries of the lot.
Aviation facilities
Navigation, communication or surveillance installations provided to assist the safe and efficient movement of aircraft. Such facilities may be located on or off airport. Note—definition from State Planning Policy (July 2014)
Background noise level
For a specified time interval, in relation to an investigation of a noise, the A-weighted sound pressure level that is equalled or exceeded for 90 percent of that part of the interval in which the investigated noise is absent.
Base date
The date from which a local government has estimated its projected infrastructure demands and costs.
Basement
A space that is situated between one floor level and the floor level next below where no part of the space projects more than one metre above ground level.
Biodiversity
The natural diversity of fauna and flora, together with the environmental conditions necessary for their survival. The four levels of biodiversity are genetic, species, ecosystem and regional diversity.
Boundary clearance
The shortest distance from the outermost projection of a structural part of the building or structure to the property boundary, including: (a) if the projection is a roof and there is a fascia—the outside face of the fascia or (b) if the projection is a roof and there is no fascia—the roof structure. The term does not include rainwater fittings or ornamental or architectural attachments.
Buffer
An area of the land including waterways required for maintaining separation distances: x
between different land uses; or
x
from a major noise source; or
x
from a conservation area or a public recreation area; or
x
from a wetland or waterway.
A buffer is not exclusive of other uses and may incorporate lower intensity activities which assist in mitigating the overall impact on external uses. As a general principle a buffer is not extended over a third party’s property without their consent.
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Building
A fixed structure that is wholly or partly enclosed by walls and is roofed, and includes a floating building and any part of a building. Note—definition from the Sustainable Planning Act 2009.
Building format plan of survey
A building format plan of survey defines land using the structural elements of a building, including, for example, floors, walls and ceilings. Note—definition from the Land Title Act 1994.
Building frontage
The façade of a building that fronts the street or other public space.
Building height
If specified: (a) in metres, the vertical distance between the ground level and the highest point of the building roof (apex) or parapet at any point, but not including load-bearing antenna, aerial, chimney, flagpole or the like (b) in storeys, the number of storeys above ground level or (c) in both metres and storeys, both (a) and (b) apply.
Building height for aviation purposes
The maximum height of the building measured to the highest projection and includes items such as antennas, aerials, chimneys and flagpoles.
Burra Charter
The charter that provides guidance for the conservation and management of places of cultural significance and is based on the knowledge and experience of Australian International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) members.
Bushfire risk
The chance of a bushfire igniting, spreading and causing damage to assets of value to the community. Assets include life, property such as buildings, stock, crops and forests, and the local government’s natural and cultural heritage.
Commercial waste
Waste, other than green waste, recyclable waste, interceptor waste or waste discharged to a sewer, produced as a result of the ordinary use or occupation of commercial premises. Note—as defined in the Environmental Protection (Interim Waste) Regulation 1996.
Community management statement
The identification of a community titles scheme. It is also a document that: x
identifies land;
x
otherwise complies with the requirements of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 for a community management statement.
Note—as defined in the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997.
Community titles scheme
A single community management statement recorded by the registrar identifying land (the scheme land). Note—as defined in the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997.
Connectivity
The extent to which a place or area is connected to other places and areas through a variety of transport means, or the ease with which connection with other places can be made.
Corner lot
A lot bounded by two or more roads where the roads intersect or join.
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Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED)
CPTED is a crime prevention philosophy based on proper design and effective use of the built environment leading to a reduction in the fear and incidence of crime, as well as an improvement in quality of life. The use of CPTED is intended to reduce crime and fear by reducing criminal opportunity and fostering positive social interaction among legitimate users of space. The emphasis is on prevention rather than apprehension and punishment.
Dedicated road
Any road dedicated to the public for public use.
Defined flood level
The peak flood level that would occur during a 1% Annual Exceedance Probability (AEP) flood event or alternative flood event determination methodology as approved by the relevant authority.
Demand unit
Demand units provide a standard of unit measurement to express demand on a trunk infrastructure network.
Demolition work
Work to demolish or dismantle systematically a structure, or part of a structure, but does not include the systematic dismantling of: x
a part of a structure for alteration, maintenance, remodelling or repair; or
x
formwork, falsework, scaffold or other construction designed or used to provide support, access or containment during construction work.
Note—as defined in the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995.
Design speed
The speed selected as being appropriate for a street, for design purposes.
Design vehicle
The vehicle which a given development is designed to accommodate in relation to on-site access and manoeuvrability.
Development
Any of the following: x
carrying out building work;
x
carrying out plumbing or drainage work;
x
carrying out operational work;
x
reconfiguring a lot;
x
making a material change of use of premises.
Note—definition from the Sustainable Planning Act 2009. Each term in this definition is further defined in the Sustainable Planning Act 2009.
Development envelope area
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The area of a lot defined by metes and bounds within which all development including but not limited to a building, structure, private open space, accessway, car park, storage, on-site wastewater treatment and associated clearing of vegetation must be confined other than a boundary fence. The term does not include an accessway from a road to the development envelope area.
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Development footprint
The location and extent of all development proposed on a site. This includes all buildings and structures, open space, all associated facilities, landscaping, onsite stormwater drainage, on-site wastewater treatment, all areas of disturbance, on-site parking, access and manoeuvring areas.
Domestic addition
The addition to or extension of the dwelling for: x
rooms— - on premises with an existing dwelling house; - that do not create a secondary dwelling; or
x
buildings or structures used for passive recreational purposes that— - are roofed and unenclosed such as verandahs, decks, patios or the like; or - provide roof-top recreational areas.
Domestic outbuilding
A Class 10a building, as defined in the Building Code of Australia, that is ancillary to a residential use on the same premises and is limited to non-habitable buildings for the purpose of a shed, garage and carport.
Domestic pet
An animal which is kept on a premises for the private enjoyment of a person residing therein. The numbers of or conditions under which the animal is kept or the type of animal shall be in accordance with any relevant local law. The term includes the keeping of bees pursuant to the Apiaries Act 1982.
Domestic waste
Waste, other than domestic clean-up waste, green waste, recyclable waste, interceptor waste or waste discharged to a sewer, produced as a result of the ordinary use or occupation of domestic premises. Note—as defined in the Environmental Protection (Interim Waste) Regulation 1996.
Dwelling
A building or part of a building used or capable of being used as a self-contained residence that must include the following: (a) food preparation facilities (b) a bath or shower (c) a toilet and wash basin (d) clothes washing facilities. This term includes outbuildings, structures and works normally associated with a dwelling.
Gross floor area
The total floor area of all storeys of a building (measured from the outside of the external walls or the centre of a common wall), other than areas used for the following: (a) building services, plant and equipment (b) access between levels (c) ground floor public lobby (d) a mall (e) the parking, loading and manoeuvring of motor vehicles (f) unenclosed private balconies whether roofed or not.
Ground level
The level of the natural ground, or, where the level of the natural ground has been changed, the level as lawfully changed.
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Habitable room
A room used for normal domestic activities, and: x
includes a bedroom, living room, lounge room, music room, television room, kitchen, dining room, sewing room, study, playroom, family room, home theatre and sunroom; but
x
excludes a bathroom, laundry, water closet, pantry, walk-in wardrobe, corridor, hallway, lobby, photographic darkroom, clothes-drying room, and other spaces of a specialised nature occupied neither frequently nor for extended periods.
Note—definition from the Building Code of Australia.
Habitat
The place where an organism lives, a physical area, some specific part of the earth’s surface, air, soil, water, or another organism. More than one animal may live in a particular habitat.
Habitat link
The area that connects two or more areas of habitat and provides a relatively safe area for movement and refuge for indigenous animals.
Habitat values
Those characteristics of an area that make it suitable as a habitat or refuge for indigenous plants and animals. These characteristics include the physical structure, nutrient and energy flows, condition and extent of habitat and the location of the area in relation to other habitats.
Hazardous material
A substance with potential to cause harm to persons, property or the environment because of 1 or more of the following— x
the chemical properties of the substance;
x
the physical properties of the substance;
x
the biological properties of the substance.
Without limiting the first paragraph, all dangerous goods, combustible liquids and chemicals are hazardous materials. Note—definition from the Dangerous Goods Safety Management Act 2001.
Heritage place
A place, area, land, landscape, building or work which is of cultural heritage significance.
High bank
The high bank is the place on the bank of the watercourse marked by either a scour mark, a depositional feature or if there are two or more scour marks, two or more depositional features or one or more scour marks and one or more depositional features, whichever scour mark or depositional feature is highest. If there is a floodplain, the high bank is the edge of the floodplain.
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Highest astronomical tide
The highest tide level that can be predicted to occur under average meteorological conditions and any combination of astronomical conditions. This level will not be reached every year, and is less than extreme levels that can be caused by storm tides.
Household
An individual or a group of two or more related or unrelated people who reside in the dwelling, with the common intention to live together on a long-term basis and who make common provision for food or other essentials for living.
Infill development
Development in existing developed areas usually involving the use of vacant land or the replacement or removal of existing uses to allow for new uses.
Irregular lot
A lot that is not rectangular in shape. This term does not include an internal lot.
Landscaped area
Means part of a site comprising predominantly soft landscaping and set aside for the purposes of enhancing or protecting the amenity of the site. The term includes the areas occupied by a rainwater tank and bicycle racks, swimming pools or ponds and garden paths, but does not include impervious surfaces such as driveways, vehicle access lanes, vehicle parking and manoeuvring areas, waste storage areas, and the like.
Landscaped strip
Landscaped strips are used along site and building boundaries and around parking areas and contain an effective and attractive mix of plants which enhance the appearance of the site, particularly from the street, and are complementary in scale to the built form. Landscaped strips exclude pedestrian access pathways and vehicular accessways.
Legibility
The extent to which people who are unfamiliar with an area are able to find their way to or around a place.
Local heritage area
An area identified on the Heritage overlay maps (OM-007a-f) which contains a local heritage place.
Lot
Lot means— x
a lot under the Land Title Act 1994; or
x
a separate, distinct parcel of land for which an interest is recorded in a register under the Land Act 1994; or
x
common property for a community titles scheme under the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997; or
x
a lot or common property to which the Building Units and Group Titles Act 1980 continues to apply; or
x
a community or precinct thoroughfare under the Mixed Use Development Act 1993; or
x
a primary or secondary thoroughfare under the Integrated Resort Development Act 1987 or the Sanctuary Cove Resort Act 1985.
Note—definition from the Sustainable Planning Act 2009.
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Mass
In a streetscape context, the three dimensional shape or outline or bulk of a building.
Mean high water spring tide
The long term average of the heights of two successive high tides when the range of tide is greatest, at full moon and new moon.
Mezzanine
An intermediate floor within a room. Note—definition from the Building Code of Australia.
Minor building work
An alteration, addition or extension to an existing building where the floor area, including balconies, is less than five per cent of the building or 50 square metres, whichever is the lesser.
Minor building alterations and additions
If building works for: x Internal building works; or x Roofed structures over ground level outdoor landscape and recreation areas at the rear of a building or beside the building as shown in the area marked ‘A’ on the diagram below having a maximum roofed area of 12m² e.g. pergolas and patios; or x Garden sheds at the rear of the premises which are at the rear or side of a building as shown in the area marked ‘A’ on the diagram below, having a maximum roofed area of 12m²; or x Car shade structures (open on at least three sides and having a maximum roofed area of 18m²) which are at the rear or side of a premises and a minimum of 4 metres behind the building as shown in the area marked ‘A’ on the diagram below; or x Roof over existing deck or balcony at the rear of the premises; or x Rainwater tanks where no greater than 3.5m in height with a footprint of 10m2or less.
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Minor electricity infrastructure
All aspects of development for an electricity supply network as defined under the Electricity Act 1994, (or for private electricity works that form an extension of, or provide service connections to properties from the network), if the network operates at standard voltages up to and including 66kV. This includes: (a) augmentations/upgrades to existing powerlines where the voltage of the infrastructure does not increase (b) augmentations to existing substations (including communication facilities for controlling works as defined under the Electricity Act 1994) where the voltage of the infrastructure does not increase, and where they are located on an existing substation lot.
Movement network
All road, rail, bus, pedestrian and cycle corridors; together with passenger transport stations and interchanges that provide access to these corridors.
Net developable area
The area of land available for development. It does not include land that cannot be developed due to constraints such as acid sulfate soils, conservation land, flood affected land or steep slope. Note—for the purpose of a priority infrastructure plan, net developable area is usually measured in hectares, net developable hectares (net dev ha).
Netserv plan
A distributor-retailer’s plan about its water and wastewater networks and provision of water service and wastewater service pursuant to section 99BJ of the South East Queensland Water (Distribution and Retail Restructuring) Act 2009.
Non-resident workers
Workers who reside in areas for extended periods when employed on projects directly associated with resource extraction, major industry, major infrastructure or rural uses, but have a permanent place of residence in another area. This includes workers engaged in fly-in/fly-out or drive-in/driveout arrangements.
Outermost projection
The outermost projection of any part of a building or structure including, in the case of a roof, the outside face of the fascia, or the roof structure where there is no fascia, or attached sunhoods or the like, but does not include retractable blinds, fixed screens, rainwater fittings, or ornamental attachments.
Out-of-centre
A location that is clearly separate from a centre. Note—land that is zoned with the word ‘centre’ in the title, is a centre for the purposes of the planning scheme.
Outdoor lighting
Any form of permanently installed lighting system whether internal or external which emits light that may have impacts beyond the site.
Overland flow path
Where a piped drainage system exists, the path where flood waters exceeding the capacity of the underground drainage system would flow. Where no piped drainage system or other form of defined waterway exists, the path taken by surface run–off from higher parts of the catchment. This does not include a waterway or wetland.
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Permeability
For the purposes of access, the extent to which people and vehicles, can access and move through a place or an area, or the ease with which connections through it can be made.
Permeable surface
The treatment of a surface to allow rainwater to infiltrate to the soil, such as grass, gravel, landscaping or open paving.
Pick up / set down area
A parking space or spaces set aside for the picking up and setting down of vehicle passengers, preferably physically separate from any adjacent vehicle carriageway.
Place
A site, area, building or other work, group of buildings or other works together with associated contents and surrounds.
Planning assumptions
Assumptions about the type, scale, location and timing of future growth.
Plot ratio
The ratio of gross floor area to the area of the site.
Precinct
An area identified for specific value or criteria within a local plan or zone.
Premises
Means: x
a building or other structure; or
x
land, whether or not a building or other structure is situated on the land.
Note—definition from the Sustainable Planning Act 2009.
Preservation
Maintaining the fabric of a place in its existing state and retarding deterioration.
Primary street frontage
Means: x
where a lot is vacant, the frontage most commonly addressed by other buildings in the block as the front of the lot; or
x
where a lot is not vacant, the frontage to which the front of the existing building addresses the street.
Private open space
An outdoor space for the exclusive use of occupants of a building.
Projection area(s)
Area or areas within a local government area for which a local government carries out demand growth projections.
Public open space
Outdoor spaces that are generally accessible to the community and provide for a range of sport, recreation, cultural, entertainment or leisure pursuits.
Public place
Premises owned by government such as parks, gardens, town squares, open space corridors, and government buildings such as public libraries.
Public transport
Services and facilities to transport passengers by modes such as buses, rail, ferries and light rail which are provided for public use.
Rear lot
A lot which has access to a road by means only of an access strip which forms part of the lot, or by means only of an easement over adjoining land.
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Recyclable waste
Clean and inoffensive waste that is declared by the local government to be recyclable waste for the area. Note—definition from the Environmental Protection (Interim Waste) Regulation 1996.
Removable structure
A dwelling unit, building or structure including foundations, capable of being completely removed from a site.
Repair
In relation to a place of cultural significance, reconstruction or restoration.
Restoration
Returning the existing fabric of a place to a known earlier state by removing accretions or by reassembling existing components without, or with limited, introduction of new material.
Removal
In relation to a place of cultural significance or streetscape value, relocation beyond or within a lot.
Rhythm
In a streetscape context, the overall pattern of buildings and building elements and the extent to which they are harmonious or discordant.
Riparian vegetation
Vegetation that grows on, below or adjacent to waterways.
Risk
A concept used to describe the likelihood of harmful consequences arising from the interaction of hazards, community and the environment.
Risk assessment
The process of identifying and documenting actual and perceived risks to human health and/or the environment, to allow further evaluation and appropriate responses. A risk matrix may be used in this process to allow the severity of the potential risk of an event occurring to be determined.
Road
An area of land, whether surveyed or unsurveyed: x
dedicated, notified or declared to be a road for public use; or
x
taken under an Act, for the purpose of a road for public use. The term includes: x
a street, esplanade, reserve for esplanade, highway, pathway, thoroughfare, track or stock route; and
x
a bridge, causeway, culvert or other works in, on, over or under a road; and
x
any part of a road.
Note—definition from the Land Act 1994.
Road hierarchy
A system in which roads are ranked in terms of their function and type; and capacity to support different types of vehicles and volumes of traffic.
Scale
In a streetscape context, the relative size of a building compared to adjacent buildings or the relative size of components of a building when compared with similar components on adjacent buildings.
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Secondary dwelling
A dwelling used in conjunction with, and subordinate to, a dwelling house on the same lot. A secondary dwelling may be constructed under a dwelling house, be attached to a dwelling house or be free standing.
Sensitive land use
Means each of the following defined uses: child care centre, community care centre, community residence, dual occupancy, dwelling house, educational establishment, health care services, hospital, hostel, multiple dwelling, office, relocatable home park, residential care facility, retirement facility, short term accommodation, tourist park. Note—definition from State Planning Policy (July 2014)
Service catchment
An area serviced by an infrastructure network. An infrastructure network is made up of one or more service catchments. Service catchments are determined by the network type and how it has been designed to operate and provide service to the urban areas. Note—for example: x stormwater network service catchments can be delineated to align with watershed boundaries x open space network service catchment can be determined using local government accessibility standards x water network service catchment can be established as the area serviced by a particular reservoir.
Setback
For a building or structure, the shortest distance measured horizontally from the outer most projection of a building or structure to the vertical projection of the boundary of the lot.
Side and rear boundary clearance
For a building or structure on a lot, the shortest distance measured horizontally from the outermost projection of the building or structure to the vertical projection of the boundary of the lot but does not include a road boundary clearance.
Site
Any land on which development is carried out or is proposed to be carried out whether such land comprises the whole or part of one lot or more than one lot if each of such lots is contiguous.
Site cover
The proportion of the site covered by a building(s), structure(s) attached to the building(s) and carport(s), calculated to the outer most projections of the building(s) and expressed as a percentage. The term does not include: (a) any structure or part thereof included in a landscaped open space area such as a gazebo or shade structure (b) basement car parking areas located wholly below ground level.
Standard format plan of survey
Defines land using a horizontal plane and references to marks on the ground. Note—definition from the Land Title Act 1994.
State-controlled road
A road or land, or part of a road or land, declared under section 24 [of the Transport Infrastructure Act 1994] to be a Statecontrolled road, and, for chapter 6, part 5, division 2, subdivision 2, see section 53. Note—definition from the Transport Infrastructure Act 1994.
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State heritage area
An area identified on the Heritage overlay maps (OM-007a-f) which contains a State heritage place.
Storey
A space that is situated between one floor level and the floor level next above, or if there is no floor above, the ceiling or roof above, but not a space that contains only: (a) a lift shaft, stairway or meter room (b) a bathroom, shower room, laundry, water closet, or other sanitary compartment (c) a combination of the above. A mezzanine is a storey. A roofed structure on or part of a rooftop that does not solely accommodate building plant and equipment is a storey. A basement is not a storey.
Stormwater
Rainfall which runs off roofs, roads and other surfaces and flows into gutters, streams and waterways where it eventually flows into the bays and ocean.
Streetscape
The collective combination of urban form elements that constitute the view of a street and its public and private domains. These elements include buildings, roads, footpaths, vegetation, open spaces and street furniture.
Structure
Includes a wall or fence and anything fixed to or projecting from a building, wall, fence or other structure. Note—definition from the Building Act 1975.
Temporary use
A use that is impermanent and may be irregular or infrequent that does not require the construction of a permanent building or the installation of permanent infrastructure or services. Note—provisions for temporary use timeframes for defined uses may be provided in section 1.7 Local government administrative matters. Editor’s note—it is recommended that local government use the ability under section 1.7 to further refine this definition for use in the local government area for defined uses.
Transit oriented development
Mixed use residential and employment areas, designed to maximise access to public transport through higher density development and pedestrian-friendly street environments.
Transport network
The road network, road geometry and pavement, public transport networks and infrastructure, cycleways and pathways, and including landscaping and lighting.
Ultimate development
The realistic extent of development anticipated to be achieved when a site (or projection area or infrastructure service catchment) is fully developed.
Urban purposes
For the purpose of local government infrastructure plans, urban purposes includes residential (other than rural residential), retail, commercial, industrial, community and government related purposes.
Use
In relation to premises, includes any use incidental to and necessarily associated with the use of the premises. Note—definition from the Sustainable Planning Act 2009.
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Vegetation
Is a native tree or plant other than the following: (a) grass or non-woody herbage; (b) a plant within a grassland regional ecosystem prescribed under a regulation; (c) a mangrove. Note—definition from the Vegetation Management Act 1999.
Vegetated buffer area
The planting of areas for the buffering between uses for enhancing and protecting the amenity of the premises containing the development, as well as the amenity of adjoining properties and the streetscape. Vegetated buffers (a) maximise visual privacy of any adjoining residences; and (b) minimise light spill and acoustic impacts; and (c) screen visually obtrusive activities (such as service costs and storage areas); and (d) soften the visual impact of the development; and (e) contain random plantings of a variety of tree and shrub species of differing growth habits, at different spacings; and (f) include species with long, thin and rough foliage which facilitates the more efficient capture of spray droplets; and (g) foliage is from the base to the crown; and (h) include species which are fast growing and hardy.
Vegetation management offset
An agreement to carry out works or activities to conserve, enhance, maintain, monitor or rehabilitate an area of vegetation. Note—definition from the Vegetation Management Act 1999.
Verge
That part of the street or road reserve between the carriageway and the boundary of the adjacent lot or other limit to the road reserve. The term may accommodate service provider utility infrastructure, footpaths, stormwater flows, street lighting poles and planting.
Volumetric format plan of survey
Defines land using three dimensionally located points to identify the position, shape and dimensions of each bounding surface. Note—definition from the Land Title Act 1994.
Walkability
The extent to which a place or an area enables and encourages walking.
Walking catchment / walkable catchment
The area of land that is within walking distance, equivalent to the distance that can be covered in about 10 minutes comfortable walk time, of a particular location. Note—the walking catchment for a particular location can be defined according to local circumstances and shown in a planning scheme map (e.g. local plan, overlay). In relation to a boundary shown in a planning scheme map, walking catchment means the land within the relevant boundary in the planning scheme map. In relation to a particular location where a boundary has not been shown in a planning scheme map, walking catchment means the land within 800 metres distance along a walkable route from that particular location.
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Water catchment
An area of land that drains water to a common point.
Waterway
Means any of the following: (a) a creek, river, stream or watercourse; or (b) an inlet of the sea into which a creek, river, stream or watercourse flows; or (c) a dam or weir. Note—definition from the Land Title Act 1994.
Wetland
An area shown as a wetland on ‘Map of referable wetlands’, a document approved by the chief executive (environment). Note—definition from the Sustainable Planning Regulation 2009.
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